Furring and fastening device



March 27, 1928. v I 1,664,096 J.L.$ULUVAN FURRING AND FASTENING DEVICE Filed Dec. 26. 192s INVENTOR. J4. JUZl/W/Y B mwwfitw A TTORNEY Patented Mar. 27, 1928.

' UNITED STATES JOHN I4. SULLIVAN, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

FURRING AND FASTENING DEVICE.

Application filed December 26, 1923. seiiai No. 682,886.

My invention relates to a device for positioning and securing plastering net-ting, or the'like, in spaced) relation to the sheathing or wal-lof a building. More particularly, the device is of the type patented by me on November 14, 1922 and comprising a furring member which'is slidably and frictionally held on a fastening member and arrangedto cooperate with a projection on the latter 0 to grip the netting wire after the dev'ce' has 6 been driven into position.-

The spacing member as heretofore constructed, had but one point or portion adapted for cooperation with said projection to engage the wire, therefore, if in some manner the spacer became disarranged on the fastener, an ineffective gripping of the'netting would result. It is one of the ojbects of this invention to provide a spacing memher which will efiectively cooperate with said projection regardless of'its position thereon. j 1 6 Another object is to provide a device of the character described having a spacing- I placed on the wall and the fastener driven member which will seal the holes made in vthe sheathing and sheathing paper by the fastener when driven into the wall, and furthermore. will not injure the paper.

A further object of the invention isto provide a device of the character described which will insure a very forceful gripping of the netting without unduly straining the I netting wire.

The invention possesses. other objects and features of advantage, some of which, with the. foregoing, will beset forth in the following description of the preferred form of my invention which is illustrated in the;

drawings accompanying and forming part of the specification. Itis to'he understood- 'be caused to be partially imbedded in the spacer and the netting will be most e'flec- Figure 3 is a perspective view of the device.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the device showing a slightly modified form of the fastener.

Thedevice of my invention, as illustrated in Figures 1 to 3, comprises a fastening member 6 having a shank 7 provided with a point 9 at one end, a hammer engaging head at the other end, and a wire-engaging projection 12 adjacent said head. The projection 12, as here shown, is virtually an extension of the shank and is preferably inclined toward the point 9 so as to define a crotch 10. The shank of the fastener is most conveniently formed circular in cross section.

Slidably carried and frictionally held on the" shank is a spacing member 13 here shown in the form of a cylindrical solid having a" central aperture through which the shank extends. The member 13 is pri marily carried on the,shank in close prox-' imity'to the point 9, but after the device is home, the spacer will lie adjacent the head end ofthe shank. f

In applying the device, it is first inserted. through the wire netting '21 so that the spacer will lie between the sheathing 24 or paper 25 and the-netting with oneor more of the netting wires lying directly between the end 28 of the spacer and the crotch 10 of the fastener. The fastener is then driven intothe sheathing thereby'causin the netting wire to be firmly gripped by t e device, 6 and the associated portion of the netting fixed in the proper spaced relation to the sheathing. Itisto he noted that since all :portions of the end 28 of the spacer are equally adapted for cooperation with the projection 12, any shifting of the spacer around the shank will not in the least afieot the ability of thefastener and spacer toproperly cooperate to grip the, wire. I

While the fastener is preferably formed ofsteel or the like, I prefer to make the spacing member of a soft material, such as fibre composition, leather, wood, lead, rubher, etc. In this manner when the fastener has been forcibly driven home, the wire will passage .to 3, the projection 12 of the fastener is pointed at its outeriend and made of such length that it will roject into the sheathing when the fastener as been driven in place. In the device as illustrated in Fi ure 4:," the foregoing feature is dispensed wit I-claim: Y

1. In a device of the character described,

v a fastening member comprising a shank having a wire engaging portion thereon, a

spacing member of. yieldable material arrangedto permit the wire to be embedded into the, bodythereof slidably held on said shank and arranged for coaxial rotation thereabout and having an end surface adjatrally-perforated spacing member'- slidably, and frictlonally held on said shank adjacent cent said wire engaging portion adapted to cooperate with the latter to hold the wire therebetween; I,

2. In adevice of ingapoint at one end and a wire engaging pro ection ad acent the other end, a censaid point said member being formed of a soft y-ieldable material whereby the wire will be forced by the wire-engaging projection into the body of said member to interlock therewith.

3. In a deviceof the character described, a fastening member comprising a shank hav ing a point at one end and a wire engaging V the character described, a fastenlng member comprising a shank hav-' projection adjacent the other end, and a centrally perforated substantially cylindrical spacing member formed of a yielding material slidably and frictionally held on said shank adapted to cooperate with said projection to hold a wire between said pro-' jection and the endfof the spacing member adjacent thereto.

4. In a device of the character described,

a fastening member comprising a shank formed of a comparatively hard material and having a wire-engaging portion, a. spacing member of a comparatively soft material slidably held on said shank and'having a fiat annular surface adapted to cooperate with said wire engaging portion to hold a wire therebetween.

5. In a device, of the character described,

a fa'stening member comprising a shank hav-' ing a point at one end and-a wire engaging projection at the other end extending trans versely from the shank and inclinedtoward said point, and a centrally-perforated solid cylindrical spacing member formed offa yielding material slidably and frictionally held on said shank adjacent said pointand adapted to cooperate with said projection at the end adjacent thereto to hold a wire there between.

6. Ina device of the character described;

a fastening member comprising a shank havmg a point at one end, a hammer engaging head at the other end, and provided with a wire engaging projection adjacent said head; and a spacingmember of yieldable material arranged to permit the Wire to be embedded into the body thereof, slid-ably held on said shank, and adapted to co-oper ate with said projection to hold a'wire between said projection and-the 'end'of the spacing member adjacent'thereto;

' In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Oakland, California, this 30th day of November, 1923.

JOHN L. SULLIVAN; 

